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1) The light
Author
Series
Morpheus Road volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Marshall Seaver is expecting a boring summer when his best friend goes away, but instead he finds himself haunted--and hunted--by ghosts that want something from him which he cannot decipher.
2) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
The author describes how her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a teenager, and how she and her seventeen-year-old sister and three-year-old brother were left to deal with the pain and hardship while they struggled to survive on their own.
4) The black
Author
Series
Morpheus Road volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati, an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea, Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Neal shares the details of her life in which she has experienced not just one miracle, but many. Her experiences provide confirmation that miracles still occur, shows how God keeps his promises and why there is sufficient reason to live by faith.
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.
9) Ostrich boys
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After their best friend Ross dies, English teenagers Blake, Kenny, and Sim plan a proper memorial by taking his ashes to Ross, Scotland, an adventure-filled journey that tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me." When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed--a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back. Colton, not yet
...11) Thirteen chairs
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When Jack enters the deserted house in his neighborhood, he finds a group of people who invite him to take the thirteenth chair in the room and share a story--in the house where the ghosts meet.
13) The blood
Author
Series
Morpheus Road volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A final showdown is in order between best friends Marshall and Cooper and the terrifying villain Damon, who's more determined than ever to break down the walls between the worlds of the living and the dead. Marshall is forced to make a brave and shocking choice when the battle is on the line, and he and Cooper might be rewarded with help from someone quite unexpected."--
14) En otro lugar
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Juvenil
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
Español
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
15) Turtle under ice
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After her mother died a few years ago, Rowena and her sister, Ariana, drifted into their own corners of the world, each figuring out in their own separate ways how to exist in a world in which their mother is no longer alive. When Ariana disappears-- at night, in the middle of a snowstorm-- Row is left to piece together the mystery behind where Ariana went and why. And she comes to realize that she might be part of the reason Ariana is gone. -- adapted...
16) The golden day
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they had met in the Garden? What actually happened in the seaside cave that day? And most important--who can they tell about it?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after her brother, Simon, drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Adam Moynihan's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then, his oldest brother died. Now, his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired proved himself a coward by moving out when they needed him most. Jolene Timber's life is nothing like the movies she loves -- not the...
20) Just like that
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
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